NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

March 26, 2014 |Photos by Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle

Workers from Boeing dismantle the specially modified 747 that was used for three decades to ferry the space shuttle across the country will be moved to Space Center Houston where it will anchor a new $12 million exhibit with the center's full-scale mockup of the space shuttle atop it.

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A remove before flight tag on doorway of the NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft being dismantled at Ellington Field.